Christina Joyce Hauser

Praise for The Crane Wife

Outstanding . . . An elegant masterpiece . . . Wry but also warm and generous

Roxane Gay

Thoughtful and fitfully funny . . . Across 17 confessional essays, we find [CJ] furtively spreading her grandparents' ashes at their old house in Martha's Vineyard, contemplating breast reduction surgery and ...

Guardian, Best Memoirs of 2022

Brilliant and beautiful . . . An absolute must-read

Frances Cha, author of IF I HAD YOUR FACE

Outstanding . . . An elegant masterpiece . . . Wry but also warm and generous

Roxane Gay

Thoughtful and fitfully funny . . . Across 17 confessional essays, we find [CJ] furtively spreading her grandparents' ashes at their old house in Martha's Vineyard, contemplating breast reduction surgery and ...

Guardian, Best Memoirs of 2022

Brilliant and beautiful . . . An absolute must-read

Frances Cha, author of IF I HAD YOUR FACE

Outstanding . . . An elegant masterpiece . . . Wry but also warm and generous

Roxane Gay

Thoughtful and fitfully funny . . . Across 17 confessional essays, we find [CJ] furtively spreading her grandparents' ashes at their old house in Martha's Vineyard, contemplating breast reduction surgery and ...

Guardian, Best Memoirs of 2022

Brilliant and beautiful . . . An absolute must-read

Frances Cha, author of IF I HAD YOUR FACE